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Cathy Pack

The Heart of the Garden

By:
Victoria Connelly

Narrated by:
Jan Cramer

Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
36

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
30

Story

4 out of 5 stars
29

Morton Hall, with its beautiful, ruined grounds and its reclusive mistress, Emilia Morton, is full of mysteries. For freelance editor Anne Marie, the wild garden has become a serene and secret refuge from her loveless marriage. The only other regular visitor is Cape, the hall's part-time gardener, who is forbidden to tend to anything except the magnificent maze or to meet his enigmatic employer. When Emilia dies, Cape and Anne Marie are astonished to find themselves among an unlikely group of villagers named in her strange will.

Lovely

Lovely

I truly enjoyed this book and the reader was wonderful. The book leaves you with a good feeling inside at the finish.

Dragons of Autumn Twilight

Dragonlance: Chronicles, Book 1

By:
Margaret Weis,
Tracy Hickman

Narrated by:
Paul Boehmer

Length: 20 hrs

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
3,020

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
2,796

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
2,819

Lifelong friends, they went their separate ways. Now they are together again, though each holds secrets from the others in his heart. They speak of a world shadowed with rumors of war. They speak of tales of strange monsters, creatures of myth, creatures of legend. They do not speak of their secrets. Not then. Not until a chance encounter with a beautiful, sorrowful woman, who bears a magical crystal staff, draws the companions deeper into the shadows, forever changing their lives and shaping the fate of the world.

Could not finish ..

I was up to section 28 and honestly I could not listen to another word and I stopped caring about all the characters. This story is too drawn out and dry as bones.

What was most disappointing about Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman ’s story?

Too slow and the voice for the gully dwarves was annoying.

Which scene was your favorite?

None stood out.

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Dragons of Autumn Twilight?

The entire trip in and out of the lost city and the gully dwarves.

Any additional comments?

I wish I had not spent a cent on this. It is so disappointing.

Invidious

By:
Bianca Scardoni

Narrated by:
Bailey Carr

Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
562

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
504

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
503

My name is Jemma Blackburn, and I'm a Slayer. Finding out I wasn't human was only the beginning of my problems. My best friend, Taylor, is still missing, and so is the Immortal Amulet, and it's my job alone to get them both back. I don't know who I can trust, and I'm still not sure I'm cut out for any of this, but I'm determined to figure it all out, or die trying. As if that wasn't bad enough, there's a new enemy in town and they've come bearing gifts - an ancient prophecy that is going to blur the very lines between good and evil. And, apparently, my blood is tied to the center of it.

5 out of 5 stars

Love this series

There is promise in this

Overall

4 out of 5 stars

Performance

5 out of 5 stars

Story

2 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 01-20-17

but the last two chapters made me route for the "bad guys". The heroine is annoying, never takes advice, acts more like a 12 year old than a teen and the dialogue at the end was painful to the point of maybe not caring what happened to her.

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

Storm over Warlock

By:
Andre Norton

Narrated by:
Jim Roberts

Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
50

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
40

Story

4 out of 5 stars
40

In this story, an alien race known as the "Throgs" attacks a Terran survey camp without warning. "Eye-searing lances of energy lashed back and forth across the base with methodical accuracy, and a single cowering witness, flattened on a ledge in the heights above, knew that when the last of those yellow-red bolts fell, nothing human would be left alive down there."